Sentences with phrase «wide as a mile»

The species traveled in enormous flocks, as wide as a mile and many miles long, and could strip an area of nuts within days.

With wind speeds up to 250 mph and paths as wide as a mile, a tornado can leave devastating loss in its wake.

Not exact matches

Hurricane Sandy paralyzed businesses throughout some of the most densely populated places in the country as the center of the 500 - mile - wide storm barreled ashore in the mid-Atlantic states.

«It was as if a 50 - to 60 - mile - wide tornado raged across Puerto Rico, like a buzz saw,» Jeff Weber, a meteorologist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, says.

With tropical force winds reaching 230 miles from its center, Hurricane Maria completely engulfed Puerto Rico as it bisected the 100 - mile wide island, picking up steam again one it was clear.

It occupies a territory 150 miles long and 80 miles wide, about the size of the state of Vermont, and is in nearly the same latitude north of the equator as our state of Georgia.

In my conversations about this, people usually then turn to the book of Revelation and point out how when Jesus returns a second time, He is going to kill so many people that there will be a lake of blood 200 miles wide and as deep as a horse's bridle (Rev 14:20).

Zoos would be regarded as barbaric as 14th century prisons, and we would subordinate our own desires for immortality to the cold hard reality of an uncaring Universe in which every species on the planet lives in a narrow 7 mile wide soap film below which there is 1,000 degree magma and above which there is the near absolute - zero vacuum of outer space.

They won't fit in this formation as both are a waste wide, and we know Wenger will play Ozil what ever happens, for me welbeck is another similar type player to what we have, I think wenger panicked and we know from SS that welbeck contacted us and said he wanted to join City and Chelsea are MILES ahead of us Liverpool have a better balanced squad which is also deeper If this is true we are fighting Manure / Spuds and Everton for 4 th

Here one can start the day with a «coretto» for courage (a heady mixture of coffee and grappa), then try such slopes as the Forcella del Sasso Lungo — where you can see the world spread out in wide screen — or the Val de Mesdi, so steep at the top (a 4,000 - foot drop in two miles) that you jump right out of your socks to make a turn.

Five minutes earlier, in the second race at Pimlico, a 1 [1/16]- mile claiming event for cheap fillies and mares worth $ 8,000 - $ 8,500, So Sly and jockey Frank Douglas were racing sixth in a field of nine, moving three wide as they charged around the far turn.

Basketball players are supposed to be lean and lanky... not a mile wide, as strong as a bull, and capable of whipping that massive frame through the air for 360 windmill slams.

He looked certain to score as he advanced calmly towards Cech, opened his body up as the goalkeeper dived the wrong way and passed the ball miles wide of the target.

Village of Richton Park: $ 62,100 to construct about 1.5 miles of 10 - foot - wide asphalt trail as Phase I of a community - wide bike trail system linking Glaeser Park, Rich South High School, Sauk School and the municipal building.

In April of this year, the Mayor dedicated $ 100 million in City capital to significantly narrow the Greenway's largest gap as part of an administration - wide push to complete a contiguous 32 - mile waterfront pedestrian promenade and bicycling path around the whole of Manhattan.

MAYOR DE BLASIO ANNOUNCES FINAL DESIGN OF PROJECT TO FILL EAST SIDE GREENWAY GAP WILL COMMENCE NEXT WEEK $ 100 million initiative comes as part of administration - wide push to complete a contiguous 32 - mile waterfront pedestrian promenade and bikeway around Manhattan

A miles - wide ice floe broke away Saturday from Lake Erie's shoreline, trapping more than 130 fishermen, some for as long as four hours.

This generated a dispute over a roughly 2 - mile - wide section of border between northern Westchester and then - Dutchess counties and the Connecticut Colony; it came to be known as «The Oblong».

The project includes the creation of 6 - foot wide sidewalks along a one - mile stretch of Elmwood Avenue which serves as a primary thoroughfare connecting local neighborhoods and Mang Park.

The National Weather Service warned Monday night that a 15 - mile wide nearly stationary band of intense lake effect snow was dumping up to 3 inches per hour on roads in southern Erie County as well as Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Livingston and Wyoming counties.

When Hillary comes rocketing out of the Democratic convention next year as the POTUS candidate, her coattails are going to be two thousand miles wide and a mile deep.

April 7th — Latitude 45 degrees 10 minutes, longitude 56 degrees 40 minutes, ran into a strip of field ice about 3 or 4 miles wide extending north and south as far as could be seen.

It's a place technically known as the south polar terrain, and astronomers have nicknamed the long, geologically active fractures «Tiger Stripes» — each about 80 miles long and a little over a mile wide.

The evidence indicates that our planet was repeatedly bombarded by objects up to 30 miles wide, with some impacts up to 500 times as energetic as the one that ended the Cretaceous.

Think of each one as a 600 - mile - wide drumhead and you can understand why the sun is a noisy place.

Last year, the Messenger probe — the first mission to Mercury since the 1970s — returned crystal - clear views of the 960 - mile - wide Caloris impact basin, here seen in false color as yellow - orange.

One enormous impact formed Pluto's photogenic «heart,» a basin 1,100 miles wide known as Tombaugh Regio.

David Jewitt and Jane Luu of the University of Hawaii uncovered the first Kuiper belt object — a 100 - mile - wide frozen ball known as QB1 — in 1992.

By coincidence, the south polar region of the moon - a 1,500 - mile - wide depression known as the Aitken Basin - is where the first permanent lunar base is most likely to be built.

Nobody had ever thought of this roughly 300 - mile - wide icy satellite as anything special — until the Cassini spacecraft witnessed geysers of water vapor blowing out from its surface.

And it is Audubon who in 1833 identified the passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, as the most numerous bird on the continent, highlighting the point by describing a mile - wide flock of migrating pigeons that passed over his head and blocked the sun for three straight days.

The eruption destroyed the top three thousand feet of the volcano, blasting it into the air in pieces, leaving behind only a large crater three miles wide and half a mile deep, as though the mountain had been struck by a meteor.

Yet the 75,000 - mile - wide planet — the second largest in the solar system, 95 times as massive as Earth — holds some serious interest of its own.

Saturn is the prototypical planet, immense and imposing (it is 74,900 miles across, 9.5 times as wide as Earth).

From an altitude of just 31 miles, it will spend the next year imaging key parts of the lunar landscape with two narrow - angle cameras, which can see details as small as three feet wide.

He's the man who recently stirred up a hornet's nest by finding lots of new objects orbiting in the outer reaches of the solar system, one of which — Eris — is around 1,400 miles wide, about the same size as Pluto.

The 1,100 - mile - wide planetoid lies 8 billion miles from the sun — three times as distant as Pluto — but its elongated 10,000 - year orbit will eventually sweep it more than 80 billion miles out, deep into the mysterious Oort cloud where comets originate.

The ex-planet's moons P4 and P5, discovered in 2011 and 2012 and both less than 25 miles wide, are now officially known as Kerberos, after the mythological multiheaded «hellhound» that guards the gates of Hades, and Styx, after the goddess who watches over the underworld river of the same name.

Some, like tiny Oxo, have terraces, while others, such as the large Urvara Crater (106 miles, 170 kilometers wide), have central peaks.

Designers say the 3.7 - mile - wide dam, slated for completion in 2015, would be able to produce over 11,233 MW of energy, ranking it as the third largest in the world.

Pulsars, the dense spinning remnants of exploded stars, contain about the same mass as the sun crushed into a wad of neutrons less than 10 miles wide.

The 2 - mile (3 - kilometer) wide tornado tore through town of Moore outside Oklahoma City, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was destroyed.

The kind of asteroid needed to form the Martian dichotomy would fall in between that size and those of the rocks that formed other large craters, such as the South Pole — Aitken impact basin on the moon and the Hellas Basin in Mars's southern hemisphere, both more than 1,30 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide.

Soon after, pulsars were identified as rapidly spinning neutron stars, the remnants of supernova explosions; they weigh as much as the sun but are just a dozen miles wide.

The geographic region that will see a total solar eclipse, known as the path of totality, is 70 miles wide, hitting land westward of Salem, Oregon (just south of Portland) around 10:15 am and moving out over the Atlantic Ocean around 2:50 pm just after passing through Columbia, South Carolina.

Since then, in excess of 800 have been detected in the 2 - billion - mile - wide Edgeworth - Kuiper belt (commonly truncated to Kuiper belt), including a few huge objects that are as much as three - quarters the size of Pluto (which is 1,430 miles wide).

The hope is that objects as small as a third of a mile wide will be detectable.

The asteroid, named Oumuamua by its discoverers, is up to one - quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly - elongated - perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide.

The little moonlet, which according to The Verge is about 20 miles wide and resembles «a little space rock with what looks like two googly eyes,» resides in what is known as the Encke Gap, a 200 - mile - wide space between Saturn's rings that is caused by the diminutive object itself.

Its diameter is 1212 km (753 miles) which is more than half as wide in size as Pluto and the Pluto - Charon system is like a double planet.